Animals to show to vet at routine visit:
- Post calving checks – 2-4 weeks calved – check for uterine infections.
- Pregnancy diagnosis – with ultrasound scanner – all cows served 35 days+
- Not seen bulling – anything that has not come bulling by the end of the VWP (42 days)
Benefits:
- Improve calving index.
- Diagnosis and treatment of non-cycling cows and uterine infections early to get cows back in calf quicker.
- Synchronisation programmes
- Herd health discussion, to enable efficient monitoring of production, fertility, infectious disease, and mastitis, with quick prevention of problems.
